Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@qoto.org

Most of the #education people I know on here do higher ed.

That's good, but I'd like to follow more #K12 #educators.

With the last new-user-wave settling in, who are some of my fellow #teachers on here who work with K-12 students?

Hi! I'm from #NYC where I'm a #FirstGenCollege #ScienceEditor in #chemistry & #astronomy. I'm also a #writer & #photographer interested in #travel, #landscape, global #workingclass #food, & #transportation including #aviation #trains #trucks & #tugboats. I'm into #cooking and often smoke #BBQ. I sometimes play #guitar in different styles of #americanmusic. I #bike everywhere & have a strong interest in #urbanplanning.

I hope Mastodon can be my one place to post lots of #photos !

Might as well do a (re)introduction. I'm a professional nerd, with my most recent gig covering #Linux and #opensource at MakeUseOf.

Other interests include #music, particularly classic and modern rock, with some classical, jazz, folk, and world music thrown in, as well as #retrogaming, with an emphasis on #adventuregames

I also love reading and watching quality TV and movies, with an eye toward #comedy and #scifi.

Restorative justice works. https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-city-that-kicked-cops-out-of-schools-and-tried-restorative-practices-instead?fbclid=IwAR261iQTUWFY58H-ttba1ix-P_s41K9U-862x_-R3X2sFymcjng_P-czdm4

Please I'm begging you... if you're one of the people who's been kicked off twitter, and there is an offer to reinstate your account, please talk to anyone who has been in an abusive relationship.

It. Only. Gets. Worse.

Don't go back. Don't let your friends go back. Don't let your newsrooms make you go back. It's a trap.

I know how hard it is to learn the lesson, "When people show you who they are, believe them the first time" but maybe you can believe them the twentieth time?

If you’re just tuning in here, it’s gonna be okay. We are going to collectively make things better, whatever it takes.

A list of questions to unpack the moral dimension of any technology

> 1. What sort of person will the use of this technology make of me?
> 2. What habits will the use of this technology instill?
> 3. How will the use of this technology affect my experience of time?
> 4. How will the use of this technology affect my experience of place?
> 5. How will the use of this technology affect how I relate to other people?

...and so on. Excellent

https://thefrailestthing.com/2014/11/29/do-artifacts-have-ethics/

@Jennifer_Pinkley

Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/

@redheadedfemme @Jennifer_Pinkley you can also import your Goodreads data into LibraryThing including reviews and ratings (if you exported it before you deleted your account). I forget why I moved from mostly LT to mostly GR to be honest.

#MastodonNews Dec 16, 2022

CNN: Elon Musk’s Twitter blocked links to rival Mastodon. That could raise alarms among regulators >>> https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html

In addition to suspending journalists who had been covering a controversy related to the third-party tracking of Musk’s private jet, the platform also suspended the official Twitter account of rival Mastodon after it tweeted about the ElonJet account.

#twittermigration
More News >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

Introduction: Hi! I am an educational technologist, podcaster, tired mother, and gin enthusiast. I write and speak about edtech ethics, good teaching and learning practice, and university culture. My makeup is roughly 78% Doozer, 22% Fraggle.

"Be useful. If you can't be useful, be nice. If you can't be nice, don't be a nuisance." Wise advice from a grandmother who ignored all three. 🙂

I tried a couple different #twittermigration tools. #movetodon is hands-down the best. Super-easy, very clear in what it does, done in 60 seconds. Hey, found some old friends! Try it now. https://www.movetodon.org/ Thanks to @Tibor

The surge continues.

Averaging 3000 to 4000 new users per hour. Mastodon continues to run pretty smoothly. Over 70,000 new users in the last 24 hours puts us on track for over 80,000 today.

Great appreciation for Mastodon instance operators! Most instances are funded entirely through donations, so if you can swing it, think about supporting your instance. Check out the /about page (eg https://[instance name]/about) for a donation link.

#twittermigration

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

Stunning set of maps depicting the changing course of the Mississippi River over millennia, created by US Army engineer Harold Fisk in 1944: https://buff.ly/3eIVrr3

Prints available here: https://buff.ly/3eHkvyR

#maps #art #rivers #mississippi #cartography #design #dataviz #time